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[EndtheMadnessNow]

On March 21, 2003, U.S. and British forces launched a massive aerial assault on Saddam Hussein’s palaces and ministries in what the United States called its ‘shock and awe’ strategy. At the same time, ground troops invaded southern Iraq, beginning their advance towards Baghdad.





Today in 2020, Prof. Jeffrey Lewis at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Calif, also a member of State Dept Int’l Security Advisory Board in his 2018 speculative novel—North Korea fired 62 nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at South Korea, Japan, and Guam after misinterpreting a tweet from Donald Trump sent shortly before a limited South Korean conventional missile strike on North Korea.




From the book:

“The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue.” So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days. An independent, bipartisan panel led by nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the commission was charged with finding and reporting the relevant facts, investigating how the nuclear war began, and determining whether our government was adequately prepared for combating a nuclear adversary and safeguarding U.S. citizens. Did President Trump and his advisers understand North Korean views about nuclear weapons? Did they appreciate the dangers of provoking the country’s ruler with social media posts and military exercises? Did the tragic milestones of that fateful month—North Korea's accidental shoot-down of Air Busan flight 411, the retaliatory strike by South Korea, and the tweet that triggered vastly more carnage—inevitably lead to war? Or did America’s leaders have the opportunity to avert the greatest calamity in the history of our nation?

Although fewer than half of the nuclear warheads reached their targets, 1.4 million people were killed in South Korea and Japan and more than 5 million were severely injured. Following a robust but conventional US counterattack, North Korea launched 13 ICBMs at the United States.

Three missiles each were targeted on the large US Navy bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and San Diego, California, the White House in Washington, DC, and Trump Tower in New York City, with a single missile fired at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Six of the 13 failed to reach their targets.

Pearl Harbor was destroyed, as were Honolulu and New York City. Two warheads fired at Washington missed and landed in Northern Virginia. The two aimed at San Diego exploded far enough off the coast that no one died. The one aimed at Mar-a-Lago destroyed Jupiter, Florida, instead.

This (fictional) nuclear attack on the United States killed 1.4 million people. Another 2.8 million people were seriously wounded. Nearly half of the ~9 million people who were severely injured in South Korea, Japan, and the United States “slowly succumbed” within days to weeks.

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States

March 21, 2009: Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, entered into force, creating the world’s fifth nuclear weapon-free zone and the only one bordering two nuclear weapon states.


The Origins and Development of the CANWFZ Concept

SAC’s original motto in March 1946 at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was reportedly "War is our profession — Peace is our product." It was changed in 1957 by its third commander, General Thomas S. Power. However, that proved offensive to some, and the slogan was changed to "Maintaining Peace is our Profession." The Air Force changed the motto once more in 1958 (after an artist found there were too many words to paint on a sign that advertised a reenlistment campaign), choosing the pithier "Peace is our Profession."


SAC was disestablished on May 31, 1992, and replaced by the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).

Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet on this day in 2006.





Newsweek


More sirens...

UK launches “Emergency Alert System”

Yesterday the UK government announced a trial for its nationwide mobile phone emergency alerts system. On April 23rd, every cell phone in the country will receive a test message accompanied by a loud siren sound. Your phone will not be usable until you have acknowledged the notification.



For some reason, they have included not only the ability to turn off the setting, but also instructions on how to do so:

"People can opt out by searching their device settings for emergency alerts and then turning off severe and extreme ones. Officials say the alerts could be life-saving, though, advising against switching them off."

Which makes me think the test isn’t so much of the system, but of the response to the system...like in the movie "White Noise".

Next Saturday there is a planned demonstration in London on March 25th on behalf of those injured/killed by vaccines.




The dark lords over at TIME warn us that "moving on would be a terrible mistake" and Bill Gates is preparing the ground for “the next pandemic”

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
-Leonard Cohen

If you come for Jerome Powell you better not miss...


Medford home owned by son of Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren destroyed by raging blaze